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2010
IEEE
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Tamper Evident Microprocessors
Abstract—Most security mechanisms proposed to date unquestioningly place trust in microprocessor hardware. This trust, however, is misplaced and dangerous because microprocessors...
Adam Waksman, Simha Sethumadhavan
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2010
IEEE
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Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile
Abstract—Modern automobiles are no longer mere mechanical devices; they are pervasively monitored and controlled by dozens of digital computers coordinated via internal vehicular...
Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, S...
SP
2010
IEEE
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Object Capabilities and Isolation of Untrusted Web Applications
—A growing number of current web sites combine active content (applications) from untrusted sources, as in so-called mashups. The object-capability model provides an appealing ap...
Sergio Maffeis, John C. Mitchell, Ankur Taly
SP
2010
IEEE
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Bootstrapping Trust in Commodity Computers
Trusting a computer for a security-sensitive task (such as checking email or banking online) requires the user to know something about the computer’s state. We examine research ...
Bryan Parno, Jonathan M. McCune, Adrian Perrig
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2010
IEEE
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How Good Are Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs? A Large Scale Evaluation
—Captchas are designed to be easy for humans but hard for machines. However, most recent research has focused only on making them hard for machines. In this paper, we present wha...
Elie Bursztein, Steven Bethard, Celine Fabry, John...
SP
2010
IEEE
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HyperSafe: A Lightweight Approach to Provide Lifetime Hypervisor Control-Flow Integrity
— Virtualization is being widely adopted in today’s computing systems. Its unique security advantages in isolating and introspecting commodity OSes as virtual machines (VMs) ha...
Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang
SP
2010
IEEE
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Reconciling Belief and Vulnerability in Information Flow
Abstract—Belief and vulnerability have been proposed recently to quantify information flow in security systems. Both concepts stand as alternatives to the traditional approaches...
Sardaouna Hamadou, Vladimiro Sassone, Catuscia Pal...
SP
2010
IEEE
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A Practical Attack to De-anonymize Social Network Users
—Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates. These sites have millions of registered users, and they are interestin...
Gilbert Wondracek, Thorsten Holz, Engin Kirda, Chr...
SP
2010
IEEE
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Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: A Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow
– With software-as-a-service becoming mainstream, more and more applications are delivered to the client through the Web. Unlike a desktop application, a web application is split...
Shuo Chen, Rui Wang, XiaoFeng Wang, Kehuan Zhang
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2010
IEEE
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Identifying Dormant Functionality in Malware Programs
—To handle the growing flood of malware, security vendors and analysts rely on tools that automatically identify and analyze malicious code. Current systems for automated malwar...
Paolo Milani Comparetti, Guido Salvaneschi, Engin ...